Getting By
Zechariah 1:6 That Message did its work on your ancestors, did it not? It woke them up and they came back, saying, ‘He did what he said he would do, sure enough. We didn’t get by with a thing.’”
A few years ago some guys from another part of the world thought they would inflict a terrible blow on America. Their ultimate purpose was and still is to take us down, destroy our economy, alter our way of life, and ultimately destroy us altogether. I’m not sure if they really thought this would work, that we would run cowering with our tails between our legs, but there was no way that our President was going to let them think they were getting by with anything. I’m sure there were several days of celebration for the terrorists as it appeared that their plans had succeeded, but this celebration period was brought to a end when our response to their attacks finally fulfilled all its prerequisites and was launched. They might have misunderstood our position based upon the louder voices of passivity that always gain prominence, but what they didn’t fully realize was that there is another voice that has declared what will happen to those who attempt to destroy us. This is the voice of that one that volunteered and shed his blood for liberty. It declares that there will be severe repercussions for those who choose to inflict any damage upon our nation. What those guys from far away discovered was that they would get away with nothing, that we would rise again much stronger, and their own way of life would be the challenged one.
Taking ‘In God We Trust’ off the money, prayer out of schools, and any sacred reference from public properties seems to be an attempt to eliminate God from our lives as a nation and people. This has been tried before and there have been periods in which terrorists to faith have apparently succeeded, but a voice has spoken from the One who volunteered and shed His blood for our freedom. He has declared that there will be victory and there will be no ‘getting by’ with anything. Those who would strut in their intellect, philosophy and even piety are set to discover that Jesus’ proclamation of freedom and liberty for all will be fulfilled despite certain contrary appearances and circumstances. We will be able to rise against any attack and, by the power of the Spirit, be strengthened even more to prove the Lordship of Jesus in our lives and in the world.
Our enemy may have taken down our towers, burned our stuff, and broken our relationships, but he’s not going to get by with anything. The voice of the Lord has spoken defeat to the oppressors and restoration of all things to His rule of peace and freedom. There will be a day of reckoning and all will know for certain that He meant what He said.
Joel 2:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
